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Multiple ingredients fuel the United States' innovation machine. They nclude i university education that fosters critical thinking, government-funded research, public-private sector collaboration, deep capital markets, established rule of law, cultural acceptance of risk-taking, and a comparably hospitable climate for new business formation.
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A pilot program now enables agencies to use 3 percent of their SBIR funds to improve the SBIR or STTR programs' administration, which can include allocating funds for new outreach activities.5 As mandated by Congress, the SBIR program continues to carry out four goals: To stimulate technological innovation; use small business to meet federal R&D needs; foster and encourage participation in innovation and entrepreneurship by minority and disadvantaged persons; and increase private-sector commercialization of innovations derived from federal R&D funding.6 The STTR's goals are to stimulate technological innovation; foster technology transfer through cooperative R&D between small businesses and research institutions; and increase private-sector commercialization of innovations derived from federal R&D.
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government.9 The STTR program follows a similar Phase I to III pathway.10 NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL STUDY OF THE SBIR AND STTR PROGRAMS At the request of Congress, the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy is reviewing the SBIR and STTR programs at the Department of Defense (DoD) , National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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1540, Sec. 5137, enacted in Public Law 112-81, the National Research Council is to review the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR)
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213. 14 National Research Council, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2011, p.
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17 See presentation by Grace Wang, National Science Foundation, in Chapter 6 of this volume. 18 National Research Council, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2011, pp.
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demographic and global economic shifts, workshop speakers noted how the addition of women and minorities enriches America's science and technology innovation in a more qualitative manner. For example, Peggy Wallace of Golden Seeds noted that research shows companies with women on their boards to be more profitable than other companies.25 Personal experiences shared during the National Academies' workshop suggest that the blending of multiple viewpoints often does cast a new lens on old problems, leading to innovative solutions.
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SOURCE: Excerpted from pp. 2-4 of Summary chapter of National Research Council, SBIR at the Department of Defense, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2014.
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